Improved trace-connection



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. SEAVEY, 0F KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND EDWARD S. HUTGHINS. i

IMPROVED` TRACE-CONN ECTION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,366, dated April 18, l865.

To aZZ'whlom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. SEAVEY, of' Kennehunkport, in the county ot' York and State of Maine, have invented a new and usc-l ful Breeclning or Trace-Connection; and` I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following speciication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of' Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of it.' Fig. 2 is a top view of the part to which the breeching or trace is immediately connected when the invention is in use. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4, a side elevation, of the notched eye or other portion of the invention.

In the drawings, A and B are the two principal parts forming the connection. The part A is composed of an eye, a', and a shank, b, provided with a head, c, the whole being formed and arranged as shown in Figs. land 2, there being a shoulder, el, at the juncture of the shank and eye. A helical spring, C, envelopes the shank b. i

The head g of the part B is formed with a vertical eye or passage, d, extending through it and opening 'into a locking-notch, e, made transversely across the head. A screw, f,

projects downward from the head, and with c and hold the two parts Aand B in connection.

The mode of disengaging thesaid two parts will be apparent. I t

I claim as my invention- The breeehing or traceconnection, as composed ot' the eye a, the shank b, the head c,

the spring C, the head g', the passage d, the i notch e, and the screw f, (or the equivalent of the latter,) the whole being arranged substantiall y as and so as to operate as specified.

JOHN E. SEAVEY.

Witnesses:

Y R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr. 

